In conversation with Zakir Hussain: Thirty minutes of Zakir Hussain far from satisfied me, but it was enough to give me a glimpse of genius carefully cocooned in unmistakable humility and hunger to reach even greater heights.

Currently out of print. Contact author directly for a copy. A collection that Barry Spacks called "fiction at its humanization best"!

The publisher says: Ajay Vishwanathan blurs his collection’s reflecting surfaces with dust. Casting back the sple﻿ndid fr﻿agility of the human condition, his stories unsettle themselves from people who cling to tradition yet yearn for limitlessness. The child workers who harvest their own youth. The son of a snake-venom wrangler who wrestles guilt. The purported virgin and keeper of her people’s sanctity. Tumbling From a Tilted Pail, these characters are splashes of color in a landscape daubed with despair.

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Ajay has work published or forthcoming in over ninety literary journals, including The Minnesota Review, Sou'wester, Southern Humanities Review, The Potomac, and The Baltimore Review. One of the editors of Foundling Review, he is the author of From a Tilted Pail, a short story collection from Queen's Ferry Press. Ajay lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and lovely twin daughters.